Background
Richard was the son of Henry Bruges or Brydges of Newbury in Berkshire and also first cousin to John Brydges, 1st Baron Chandos.
Richard was the son of Henry Bruges or Brydges of Newbury in Berkshire and also first cousin to John Brydges, 1st Baron Chandos.
The Brydges family leased and then owned the manor of Ludgershall in Wiltshire for much of the sixteenth century. He served as the High Sheriff of Berkshire in 1554. Richard died on 1 August 1558, after which Jane later married Sir Simon Harcourt.
Sir Richard Brydges and Lady Jane Spencer were the parents of the following children:
Jane Brydges, b.
1541
Anthony Brydges, b. 1543, m. Barbara Pexsall, 1562
Frances Brydges, b.1546, m.
Nicholas Stephens, Esq. of Burdrop Manor
Edmund or Edward Brydges, b. 1548 daughter Aft 1594 of West Bradley, Somerset.
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Sir Richard Brydges was the Member of Parliament for Berkshire from 1539 to 1540 and, at other times, for Ludgershall.